Autodesk introduces Flame Premium 2011

Autodesk is introducing Autodesk Flame Premium 2011, a powerful solution for 3D visual effects creation, editorial finishing and real-time color grading. Flame Premium combines the latest 2011 extension 1 releases of Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Smoke Advanced and Autodesk Lustre software into a single offering, designed to help post-production companies expand and diversify their creative services more cost-effectively. Flame Premium is being launched at a price substantially less than the cost of purchasing licenses of these products individually. In addition, new cross-grade pricing* offers some Autodesk creative finishing customers potential savings of up to 85 percent."The industry is changing fast with HD, stereoscopic 3D and digital distribution. Companies need the flexibility to do more for less. With Flame Premium, customers can now offer a fuller range of services -- higher-quality visual effects, editorial finishing, and real-time color grading -- all with a single workstation."

"Flame Premium presents a great opportunity for customers to expand their creative services and better compete in a media industry that craves ever-more-sophisticated visual imagery," said Marc Petit, Autodesk senior vice president, Media & Entertainment. "The industry is changing fast with HD, stereoscopic 3D and digital distribution. Companies need the flexibility to do more for less. With Flame Premium, customers can now offer a fuller range of services -- higher-quality visual effects, editorial finishing, and real-time color grading -- all with a single workstation." For the last 20 years, Flame has been a leading tool in high-end post-production. Customers have used Autodesk creative finishing tools (Flame, Smoke Advanced and Lustre) to help create popular television shows ("Lost," "Bones," "House"), and blockbuster movies ("Iron Man 2," "Clash of the Titans," and "Shutter Island"), and award-winning commercials (E*Trade Super Bowl campaign, The Beatles Rock Band video game and Snickers "Game"). Flame and Lustre have each won an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. "Many of Autodesk’s customers are the who’s who of post-production around the world," explained Marc Petit. "And, as their business continues to shift from traditional, per-hour, billing models to project-centric models, client-supervised post-production has expanded in nature, remaining a critical offering. Customers now need to deliver more integrated, high-performance, creative services that span the gamut of post-production. As a result, they are looking for more interactive, higher-quality creative solutions that can help them better meet their clients‘ requirements and timelines. Flame Premium offers them a faster, more affordable and highly creative solution, as well as more efficient workflows with its trusted, production-proven toolset all in one box."

Teachers Day.....Celebration.......

Teachers are one of the greatest people whom you can across in your life. They are not only the selfless givers but also the mentors of your life. At every step of your life, you come cross teachers who devote their entire life in the enlightenment of students like you. For sure, teachers’ definition can’t be limited to a subject teacher because anyone who guides you in your life is a teacher. Many a times in life, you feel like thanking your teacher but you do not find a proper occasion. So this teachers’ day commemorate your teachers’ efforts and thank him for being the guiding light in your life.

The festival is celebrated on different dates in different countries. In India, Teacher's Day (also called Teachers' Appreciation Day or National Teacher's Day) is celebrated on 5th of September, every year. The date was selected, because it is the birthday of a timeless teacher and the former President of India - Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. When some of his students and friends approached him and requested him to allow them to celebrate his birthday, he said, "instead of celebrating my birthday separately, it would be my proud privilege, if September 5th is observed as Teacher's day". From then onwards, the 5th of September has been observed as Teachers Day, in India

Pixion delivers VFX for ‘Peepli Live‘

Pixion studios continues its streak and beam with pride as they are technically associated with another film and this one goes by the name of ‘Peepli Live‘. The much talked about movie is a clever comical satire on the issue of farmer‘s suicides and subsequent media and political response to it. Produced under the banner of Aamir Khan Productions, the movie is directed by debutant director Anusha Rizvi, who was a journalist prior to venturing into the arena of film direction. Some of the shots that Pixion worked on included creating the entire look and logos of the 2 rival channels, its complete packaging, creating tickers for the same and a few clean ups too. A total of 65 shots were done under the VFX supervision of Prasad Sutar and composting head Ranadheer Reddy and composting lead Dinesh Solanki. A team of 12 artists worked on the project which took around 20 days to be completed. The matte painter on this project was Chandrakant Shenoy who was a key element in setting up the look of the two rival channels that were shown in the film.

 

The film released in Mumbai on the 13th of August 2010 to great critical and public acclaim and commercial success too. Speaking to AnimationXpress.com, Prasad Sutar, VFX supervisor of the movie said, "We designed the look and logos of the two rival English and Hindi channels prior to the shoot itself, therefore this saved a lot of composting work. Due to this the team of the film was also able to save a lot of time in the post-production stage."ixion was involved in the movie right from the scripting stage. "Aamir Khan Productions is very clear about the fact that the studio should be given the script to read before starting any kind of work on the project and since we did work with them for the movie ‘Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane na‘ earlier, we already knew the dedication and depth they have towards their work," Prasad further adds. Speaking of their experience of working with a debutant director Anusha Rizvi, Prasad says, "It was a pleasant experience working with her. She exactly knew what she wanted from our side and therefore the communication became much easier. She saw to it that we made the two channels stand out from each other in a distinct manner. This definitely helped us to give our best towards the film."